Adult volunteer facilitators who facilitate our weekly support group and provide feedback and support.

We depend on word of mouth and personal experience to collect resources. If you have anything to add to this resource list of if you see incorrect or out dated information, please email us at Masa@stonewallyouth.org

Other Resources Besides Us:

Thurston County LGBTQ+ Organizations and Resources

Gender Alliance of the South Sound (Tacoma, Bremerton, Olympia)

253-383-2318

http://www.southsoundgender.com/

2215 Pacific Ave. Tacoma, WA 98402

GASS offers a support group for trans identified individuals (basically anyone identifying with something other than the gender that they were assigned at birth). Olympia support group meetings are every Wednesday, 8-10pm. See site for details.

Mpowerment aims to mobilize young gay and bisexual men to build a healthy community, form positive social connections, and promote safer-sex. They also offer free HIV testing via the phone number above. Slots are Fridays from 2p-7p.

PiPE’s mission: “To engage homeless and at risk youth, LGBTQQIA youth, and adult allies in the elimination of sexual violence, bias & hate crimes as they contributes to homelessness and as it exists in street culture.
We achieve this though social change work, violence prevention education, and survivor support services including advocacy, therapy and support groups.”

PCAF is dedicated to assisting persons living with HIV/AIDS to meet their needs for food, housing, healthcare and personal support. PCAF also offers safer sex products and HIV testing on certain days.

Pizza Klatch (Thurston County)

(360) 339-7574

http://pizzaklatch.org/

4305 Lacey Blvd SE Suite 29 Lacey, WA 98503

Pizza Klatch offers lunch time support groups with trained facilitators for LGBTQ+ high school students at 11 high schools throughout Thurston County. They also offer training and workshops.

POWER (Olympia)

(360) 352 – 9716

Toll free: 866 – 343 – 9716

info@mamapower.org

http://www.mamapower.org/

309 5th Ave SE Olympia, WA 98501

POWER (Parents Organizing for Welfare and Economic Rights) is an organization of low-income parents and allies advocating for a strong social safety net while working toward a world where children and care giving are truly valued, and the devastation of poverty has been eradicated.

SafePlace is the only advocacy agency and confidential shelter for survivors of domestic violence and sexual assault in Thurston County. They also holds workshops and trainings for other organizations. They also offer resources in Spanish.

Internet Resources for Queer Culture, Health and Community

A tribute to Queer Youth Space, this fan page is a platform to advance trans, queer, and gnc folks of color and progressive movements.

Community United Against Violence
Website: www.cuav.org
Their mission is to prevent and respond to violence against and within our diverse LGBTQQ communities. They accomplish this through peer-based counseling, direct assistance, education and outreach, grassroots organizing, and policy advocacy.

Forge
Website: www.forge-forward.org
FORGE is a Milwaukee-based, progressive organization whose mission is to support, educate and advocate for the rights and lives of transgender individuals and SOFFAs (Significant Others, Friends, Family, and Allies).

Intersex Initiative – Portland
Website: www.ipdx.org
Portland, Oregon based national activist and advocacy organization for people born with intersex conditions.

Intersex Society of North America
Website: www.isna.org
The Intersex Society of North America (ISNA) is devoted to systemic change to end shame, secrecy, and unwanted genital surgeries for people born with an anatomy that someone decided is not standard for male or female.

The Network la Red
Website: www.tnlr.org
The Network la Red is a survivor-led, social justice organization that works to end partner abuse in lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, BDSM, polyamorous, and queer communities.

The Northwest Network
Website: www.nwnetwork.org
Offers free and confidential support for LGBT survivors of abuse and their friends and families.

Original Plumbing
Website: www.originalplumbing.com
Documents diversity within trans male lifestyles through photographic portraits and essays, personal narratives and interviews. We feel that there is no single way to sum up what it means to be a trans man because we each have different beliefs, life experiences and relationships to our own bodies.) This is an online resource as well as a quarterly magazine.

Safe Schools Coalition
Website: www.safeschoolscoalition.org
The Safe Schools Coalition is an international public-private partnership in support of gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender youth, that is working to help schools – at home and all over the world – become safe places where every family can belong, where every educator can teach, and where every child can learn, regardless of gender identity or sexual orientation.

The Survivor Project
Website: www.survivorproject.org
Dedicated to addressing the needs of intersex and trans survivors of domestic and sexual violence through caring action, education and expanding access to resources and to opportunities for action.

TransYouth Family Allies
Website: www.imatyfa.org
TYFA empowers children and families by partnering with educators, service providers and communities, to develop supportive environments in which gender may be expressed and respected.

Know Your Rights

Washington State Public Schoolshttp://www.k12.wa.us/Equity/ProhibitingDiscrimination.aspx
These are guidelines constitute OSPI’s interpretation of Washington State anti-descrimination law and are provided to support school districts’ understanding of their obligations under these laws. These issues still come up all the time for youth in our community: importantly, pages 28-30 apply specifically to trans youth and schools.

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